Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.
Un travailleur pauvre de la campagne se rend à Stockholm, en pleine expansion, et y entame une nouvelle vie semée d'embûches. D'après le livre de Per Anders Fogelström.